Used Games Philosophy

What pre-owned games are like Starbucks.

This story that I published yesterday concerning used game touched off quite a discussion in the comments. I'm glad to see such an enthusiastic response, and I thought I'd refer people to the video below for a bit more of an in depth look at the issues I discussed.

In the video, Slovenian professor at University of Ljubljana, Slavoj Zizek, offers his take on consumers buying their ethics from a store. I used Whole Foods as an example in my article, though Zizek turns towards Starbucks as an example. He claims packaging charity with our consumerism does far more harm to those that we wish to aid than doing nothing at all, because it allows the system that harmed these individuals in the first place to continue. I didn't take my argument quite that far -- I just thought turning my latest Steam purchase into an exercise in ethical self-flagellation was a bit of a stretch.